Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over-the-counter market. "We have not forgotten the fact that the Act calls for regulation in the over-the-counter market similar to that in the Exchange field. We will press for that goal...
Underwriting. "I can tell you that the rules covering market operations of underwriters and others during the period of distribution of securities are definitely on their...
Finance and Law. During this period Douglas took his only fling in the stock market on margin. On a tip he put every available cent on a stock then selling at $9. In two weeks he sold it at $28.75. This was the peak and a few days later the stock was back to $9. Douglas had a fat profit but his analytical mind shuddered over the thought of what might have happened...
About the current state of the New York Stock Market, whose six-week decline has been attributed by many to thinness of trading brought on by SEC regulation, Chairman Douglas dropped several broad hints: "From time to time we hope to be able to get at the root of market trends. If it is natural, economic forces, that is one thing. If it is artificially caused, that is something else. You should remember that we are not interested in prices as such. . . . We want a free market, and prices will always go up & down in a free market, depending upon...
...village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred...